Re: kdm with X.Org

[Alf Schlichting <a_(_dot_)_schlichting_(_at_)_lemarit_(_dot_)_com>]

Am Sonntag, 27. Februar 2005 18:40 schrieb Stephan Tesch:
> Hi everyone,
>
> For a couple of weeks now I'm having problems starting kdm on a -current
> system.
>
> I start kdm from the command line (user: root). An X process appears and it
> seems like it tries to spawn a child, but that fails miserably and this
> game is repeated forever. Once I kill the kdm process, X comes up.
>
> I get the following error message immediately after starting kdm:
>
> kdm[PID]: X server startup timeout, terminating
>
> This message gets repeated all the time. After a minute or so, I get a
> "message repeated 800 times" on the console.
>
> Since xdm works like a charm, this should be an issue with kdm (and thus
> ports is the right list).
>
> I can reproduce this on a Sun Blade 100 (sparc64), but not on a i386
> system.
>
> kdm configuration has been created using genkdmconf but it's the same
> without any kdm configuration.
>
> /var/log/kdm.log shows only this entry:
> This is a pre-release version of the The X.Org Foundation X11.
> It is not supported in any way.
> Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
> Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
> Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
> latest version in the The X.Org Foundation "monolithic tree" CVS
> repository hosted at http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg/
> X Window System Version 6.8.1.904 (6.8.2 RC 4)
> Release Date: 2 February 2005
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1.904
> Build Operating System: OpenBSD 3.6 sparc64 [ELF]
> Current Operating System: OpenBSD narsil.tesch.cx 3.6 GENERIC#406 sparc64
> Build Date: 15 February 2005
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Feb 27 17:44:29 2005
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from list!
>
> Anyone else seeing this behaviour?
>
> Attached are a dmesg, a ps output and the X.Org configuration.
>
> Thanks, Stephan
I have it running here, i386 -current.

Search the misc_(_at_)_-archives for 'kdm', there you will find a small howto.

Alf